performance improvements

Softpedia: "After six month of hard work, the KDE Software Compilation 4.8 is finally here, bringing beautiful new features, various software updates, and lots of performance improvements."

AMD has announced that it will lay off approximately 1400 workers out of a total of 12,019 in a bid to cut operating expenses.

The company’s decision comes as something of a surprise given its successful Brazos and Llano launches earlier this year and the fairly good Q3 results it reported only a week ago.

The firings will take place at all of AMD’s global offices; the company has no plans to close a particular location.

Mozilla has released Firefox 4, the latest version of the open source Web browser. Ars takes a close hands-on look at the updated browser, which brings performance improvements, synchronization support, and a significant user interface overhaul.

It's a newsflash! JRuby 1.6.0 has been released today. Congratulations to the JRuby team. 1.6 is a significant and much awaited release and comes after a 9 month push of over 2500 commits.

Version 1.1 is the latest release of Rubinius, a Ruby implementation based around a C++ and LLVM virtual machine but with the bytecode compiler and majority of the core written in Ruby itself.

It's often called a "Ruby in Ruby." We celebrated and explained the background to Rubinius' 1.0 release 4 months ago.

The latest installment of our series of roundup posts, covering some of our latest findings in the world of all things Ruby.

These items wouldn't make it in as separate posts, but they should be of enough interest to Rubyists generally to make it a worthwhile browse for most readers.

Now that WINCACHE 1.1 Beta is released and it has support for user cache, you can enhance Drupal’s performance by integrating WINCACHE user cache.

For this you will need to have two things already setup:

KDE press release: "KDE Community Ships First Translation and Service Release of the 4.4 Free Desktop, Containing Numerous Bugfixes, Performance Improvements and Translation Updates"

Early reports by developers indicate vast speed and performance improvements.

Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise Edition developers Ninh "Hernandez" Bui and Hongli Lai travelled to San Francisco last week and gave a 35 minute Google Tech Talk called Building A More Efficient Ruby Interpreter.